Deconstructed Broccoli & Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breasts

When hosting guests, I love preparing elegant stuffed chicken breast entrees for that gorgeous presentation of sliced chicken revealing colorful fillings inside. However, forming and maneuvering stuffed chicken can be quite labor intensive and risky business. If even a tiny seam isn’t perfectly sealed, all that precious filling ends up leaking out into the pan … Read more

Weekly Round Up Allergy Series: Vegan Recipes

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I thought maybe I’d start this WRU with a helpful summary of what the definitions of vegan vs. vegetarian are as they can be quite confused and interchanged frequently. They are similar to many, but to others they are very different. Let’s start with definitions: Vegetarian – A person who does not eat or does … Read more

Weekly Round Up: Camping Foods!

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I figured Labor Day is almost here (and back to school!), so putting together a weekly round up of easy to make recipes for the end of the summer camping trip would be nice. These are easy to make year round, and even in your own backyard! These are the most yummy and out of … Read more

Weekly Round Up: Homemade Snack Chips!

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I don’t know about you and your family, but my family and I are huge chip eaters. We eat all sorts of chips. They’re so easy to put in school lunches and put in a bowl for snack… But they’re so full of sodium and other yucky stuff that I would rather not give to … Read more

A Fun & Festive Make-Your-Own-Pizza Party

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One of the coolest things about having 5 kids is that it doesn’t take much to turn an ordinary dinner into a party. Add a cuple friends and one set of grandparents, and there you go – party central! As you can imagine, it’s kind of hard to turn to an offer to host a … Read more

Fiesta Burgers & Firing Up The Grill

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Last summer, we fell in love with grilling. For years before that, we want without grilling because we didn’t have the backyard space for a grill. But once we moved to a home with plenty of room for a grill, we started firing it up on a regular basis and my husband happily became the … Read more

Favorite Recipes From 2011

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Happy New Year Everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful New Year’s Eve and that 2012 is off to a great start for you! 2011 was a great year for our family. It was filled with many changes, a lot of hard work, tons of fun and love, and some really great food! Here … Read more

Experimenting With Costco & A Rack of Pork

Although we have many family members that are members at Costco, Eric and I had never been in one until this past weekend. We love warehouse club shopping and have been known to make a day out of walking around the aisles with the kids. So, we were very excited about becoming members at Costco … Read more

One Of Those Weeks

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Do you ever have one of those weeks where everything you try in the kitchen turns out wrong? And I don’t mean wrong to the point of thinking “hmm, this could have been better,” but wrong to where you have to tell your husband who’s on his way home to eat a late dinner after … Read more